The Complete New Manager

64 Attack De-Motivators Head-On

As a manager, you directly or indirectly impact your employees’ self-confidence, their desires, their long-term interests, and their overall ability to love what they do for a living. That’s a lot of pressure on any manager to get it right.

This section is full of tips and guidelines to help you positively influence the motivation of your employees. But, let’s face it: we live in demanding and increasingly negative times. No matter how supportive, motivating, or encouraging you may be as a manager, you’re no doubt constantly facing circumstances that negatively influence the motivation of your employees.

So how do you as a leader build and maintain hope in the midst of influences that threaten to de-motivate? Simple. ...